Strange things are happening in the sky above the Arctic — and they’re freezing the U.S. in unexpected ways. A new study reveals how shifting polar vortex patterns explain why parts of the country ...

A 4·6 billion-year-old patient of ill-defined sex is seen in the emergency room because of multiple, uncontrolled respiratory ...

Relatively unknown global weather patterns can drive the hurricane season. What are the ITCZ, Central American Gyre and the Bermuda High?

Environment The global temperature may be even higher than we thought Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just ...

I am alarmed that California's clean-air standards face threats from Senate Republicans, risking American innovation in electric vehicles and global market competitiveness.

However, global climate models commonly used for climate guidance may artificially suppress certain positive feedbacks between precipitation and air motion due to the constraints of convective ...

In a sweeping new study of more than 13,000 urban areas worldwide, researchers have mapped air pollution levels and carbon dioxide emissions, providing comprehensive global analysis of urban ...

When smoke from Canadian wildfires turned New York City skies apocalyptically orange in June 2023, it delivered catastrophic air quality and an unexpected side effect: cooling the New York City region ...

These processes connect local breezes to global air circulation, driven entirely by solar energy and the Earth's rotation, making wind a constant and essential part of Earth’s climate system.

The WHO has identified air pollution as the biggest environmental threat to human health globally. Each year, an estimated seven million people around the world are killed by effects from air ...